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Gregg’s working on another clock.  Plywood surround, stacked glass and layered stainless steel.  The funny angle is because I wasn’t willing to climb a ladder to get a good composition.

Well, I finally finished it.  Its about 5 feet tall, 39 inches wide and 22 inches deep.  It made out of cedar, 1/4 inch glass, sheet steel and rebar.  I don’t know it exact weight, but some where under 100 pounds.  The cedar was donated by Sarah Burris, and the glass was donated by Blue Ridge Glass of Waynesville.  The rebar and sheet steel I bought.  Funds for the project were provided by the Haywood County Arts Council through the  Regional Artist Project Grant. 

I have found that working on several pieces at once works for me.  If I get stuck on one piece and work on another until I over come my design problems on the first piece.  Here is my next stacked glass piece. Here is the finished piece.

Well, the left side design phase is done.  The right has gone through many different ideas.  Here is the first 3D trial.  There will be a slightly less than half circle of steel attached to a cedar left side with 1/4 inch glass fins attached to the steel on both sides.  Not the best photo, but…

Here is the left side first look.

OK.  The left side is looking pretty good.  Now, how to display it.  I wanted it to be about five feet tall.  I liked the circle in interation 4, but it needed something to increase its height.  The picture below was taken in my welding yard.  You can see the beginnings of the right side of the sculpture also.

I didn’t like the horizontal.  This is an angle test.  I liked the angle.

This is the next idea I explored for the dyptic.  I liked it.  The glass ,however, is just stacked in the cedar, not yet glued.  When I tried to move it to glue it, it didn’t stay together.  I had to restack and glue the glass.

I don’t use a CAD program to explore sculptural design ideas. It’s too mechanical for me. It removes the natural use of my hands. The design process is trial and error. Below are the first two of the iterations on the way to my new dyptic sculpture for the RAPG grant.

This is my first stacked glass piece.